ObituariesBoris Lurie, 83, a founder of the NO!art movementBy David H. Katz
Lower East Side resident, artist, writer and poet Boris Lurie, a founding member of the NO!art movement, died Jan. 7 in Manhattan of kidney failure brought on by complications of a stroke. He was 83.

Friends share ‘Eddie stories’ at memorialSeventy-five people attended a memorial service for Edward Graham, the “Mayor of E. Fourth St.,” and shared their stories about him on Sunday at Peter Jarema Funeral Home on E. Seventh St.

SportsColumbia players score with skills-building clinicBy Judith StilesThe players in the Greenwich Village Youth Council’s Girls Basketball League recently enjoyed a welcome change of pace. There were no scores, no standings and everyone came out a winner on an evening of shooting hoops with the stars of the Columbia University women’s basketball team.

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Group gets top attorney to help battle St. Vincent’sBy Albert Amateau
A new group opposed to the current St. Vincent’s/Rudin plan to redevelop the hospital campus in the Greenwich Village Historic District emerged last week at a Community Board 2 landmarks forum attended by more than 500 people.

Landslide for Lane
BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE
Politics, as anyone with access to a newspaper or television knows only too well, is a very, very messy business. A combination of naked aggression, manipulation, ego run rampant, and cynicism tricked out as humanity, this most ancient of arts is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach.

Off the Grid
BY STEPHEN MUELLER
A new civilization of gallery life has sprung up in the immediate vicinity of the New Museum on the Bowery and along the blocks east of Ludlow Street. Reminiscent of the East Village scene of the '80s, the current gentrification, somewhat less funky, makes a viable alternative to the architectural statement of mega-galleries hugging the Hudson in Chelsea.

More than 1,000 pack pier rally against Related plan
By Lincoln Anderson
More than 1,000 kids and parents, one celebrity chef, local politicians and community leaders, L.G.B.T. waterfront activists and a rockin’ band of 12-year-old guitar heroes packed Pier 40 last Sunday afternoon.

Silver signals his support for the traffic pricing plan
By Josh Rogers with Julie Shapiro
Since the mayor began pushing for traffic pricing a year ago, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s skepticism has been one of the toughest roadblocks to passage, but Silver said last Wednesday he likes at least one of the suggested adjustments to the mayor’s plan.

For ‘two cacti’ taqueria, authenticity is the point
By Lisa Lacy
The name may be a little hard for gringos to pronounce, but El Maguey y La Tuna, a Mexican restaurant on the Lower East Side, strives to bring “a taste of Mexico” to Manhattan, regardless of whether or not locals know quite how to say it.